"to protect the remains, and White Cliffs Experience. All this has been widely criticised by, among others, Philp himself, who has said: Dubris Dubris, also known as Portus Dubris and Dubrae, was a port in Roman Britain on the site of present-day Dover, Kent, England. As the closest point to continental Europe and the site of the estuary of the Dour, the site chosen for Dover was ideal for a cross-channel port. The Dour is now covered over for much of its course through the town. In the Roman era, it grew into an important military, mercantile and cross-channel harbour"
"Peterborough. Durobrivae (Water Newton) Durobrivae was a Roman fortified garrison town located at Water Newton in the English county of Cambridgeshire, where Ermine Street crossed the River Nene. More generally, it was in the territory of the Corieltauvi in a region of villas and commercial potteries. The name is a Latinisation of Celtic (or more accurately Brythonic) *""Durobrīwās"", meaning essentially ""fort (by the) bridges"". During the Iron Age Britain was divided into distinct tribal areas. The area lay between the Catuvellauni to the south and the Corieltauvi to the north, with the Iceni to the east. The origin of Durobrivae"
"Durobrivae (Water Newton) Durobrivae was a Roman fortified garrison town located at Water Newton in the English county of Cambridgeshire, where Ermine Street crossed the River Nene. More generally, it was in the territory of the Corieltauvi in a region of villas and commercial potteries. The name is a Latinisation of Celtic (or more accurately Brythonic) *""Durobrīwās"", meaning essentially ""fort (by the) bridges"". During the Iron Age Britain was divided into distinct tribal areas. The area lay between the Catuvellauni to the south and the Corieltauvi to the north, with the Iceni to the east. The origin of Durobrivae is"
"Drumburgh Drumburgh is a small settlement in Cumbria, England. It is northwest of the city of Carlisle and is on the course of Hadrian's Wall, near to Burgh by Sands. The village is sited on a gentle hill with a good view in all directions over the surrounding lowlands. The name means 'ridge near the fort' as derived from the Celtic language and the common Old English word 'burgh', pronounced as 'bruff' in this instance. Coggabata is the Roman fort referred to in the placename, which was linked by a Roman road to the nearby fort at Kirkbride to the"
"became the town the Romans named Durnovaria, a Brythonic name incorporating ""durn"", ""fist"", loosely interpreted as 'place with fist-sized pebbles'. It appears to have taken part of its name from the local Durotriges tribe who inhabited the area. Durnovaria was recorded in the 4th-century Antonine Itinerary and became a market centre for the surrounding countryside, an important road junction and staging post, and subsequently one of the twin capitals of the Celtic Durotriges tribe. The remains of the Roman walls that surrounded the town can still be seen. The majority have been replaced by pathways that form a square inside"
"Chester-le-Street Chester-le-Street () is a town in County Durham, England. Its history goes back to the building of a Roman fort called Concangis. This Roman fort is the ""Chester"" (from the Latin ""castra"") of the town's name; the ""Street"" refers to the paved Roman road that ran north–south through the town, and which is now called Front Street. Chester-le-Street is located south of Newcastle upon Tyne and west of Sunderland on the River Wear. The parish church of St Mary and St Cuthbert is where the body of St Cuthbert remained for 112 years before being transferred to Durham Cathedral,"
"site of the investiture of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. At its peak, Dubris was a major trading centre, taking over from Rutupiae as the main Roman cross-Channel port. With Rutupiae, it was one of the starting points for Watling Street, the Roman road to Canterbury and, ultimately, London. During the construction of the new A256/York Street bypass in the 1970s Roman remains were discovered and an eight-week excavation followed. The archaeologists discovered a Roman mansio now known as the ""Roman Painted House"". The mansio, a hostel for government officials, was built in c. 200. It was discovered"
"of a Celtic ancient trackway. It was an important route for the Romans linking London with Canterbury and the three Channel ports of Rutupiae (now Richborough), Dubris (now Dover) and Portus Lemanis (in modern Lympne). It had river crossings at Rochester over the River Medway; Dartford (River Darent) and Crayford (River Cray). The Romans paved the road and constructed the first Rochester Bridge across the Medway. Access to London was via London Bridge which was first constructed by the Romans in AD 50. The road was known as 'Item a Londinio ad portum Dubris' and appeared in the Antonine Itinerary,"
"Lindinis Lindinis or Lendiniae was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is known as Ilchester, located in the English county of Somerset in the United Kingdom. The name ""Lindinis"" appears in the 7th-century ""Ravenna Cosmography"". The alternative ""*Lendiniae"" is derived from two inscribed construction stones from Hadrian's Wall which refer to a detachment from the ""Lendinienses"" tribe of the Durotriges"" (). The inscriptions seem to imply that the town was a separate tribal capital from the known one at Dorchester (""Durnovaria""). It appears to be a Latinization of the Brittonic for ""swampy lake"". There were"
"derived from the Latin word ""pharos"", which means ""lighthouse"", and refers to the famous lighthouse at Dubris built by the Romans after their conquest of Britain. In 1995, during the contest for leadership of the Conservative Party between Prime Minister John Major and John Redwood MP it was suggested in the media that Redwood briefly attended the school, however, a search of the school records by deputy headmaster, Dr. Alan Jackson, found no evidence to support this. Dover Grammar School for Boys Dover Grammar School for Boys is a selective secondary school located in Dover, United Kingdom. The school is"
"Dunstable Dunstable ( ) is a market town and civil parish located in Bedfordshire, England. It lies on the eastward tail spurs of the Chiltern Hills, north of London. These geographical features form several steep chalk escarpments most noticeable when approaching Dunstable from the north. Dunstable is the largest settlement in Central Bedfordshire and third largest in Bedfordshire behind Luton and Bedford. Along with Houghton Regis and the much larger town of Luton it forms the westernmost part of the Luton/Dunstable Urban Area. In Roman times its name was Durocobrivis. There was a general assumption that the nominative form of"
"History of Rochester, Kent Rochester is a town and former city in Kent, England. It is located at the lowest bridging point of the River Medway about from London. The town's location is due to the bridge which carries the Roman Watling Street (now the A2) over the river. The source of the Romano-British name for Rochester, Durobrivae, has been a matter of some debate. The name ""Durobrivae"" can be translated as ""stronghold"" or ""fort"" by the ""bridge"" or ""bridges"". This could have been the ""oppidum"" (see pre-Roman history, below) or a pre-Roman fort. No such fort has been discovered"
"under the control of Kent County Council and is still part of the ceremonial county of Kent, under the latest Lieutenancies Act. The Romano-British name for Rochester was Durobrivae, later Durobrivis c. 730 and Dorobrevis in 844. The two commonly cited origins of this name are that it either came from ""stronghold by the bridge(s)"" or is the latinisation of the British word ""Dourbruf"" meaning ""swiftstream"". Durobrivis was pronounced 'Robrivis. In later times, the word ""cæster"" (=castle, from Latin ""castrum"") was added to the name and the city was called ""Robrivis Cæster"". Bede mentions the city in ca. 730 and"
"Dubmill Dubmill is a settlement in the civil parish of Holme St. Cuthbert in Cumbria, United Kingdom. It is located approximately one mile south-west of the village of Mawbray, half-a-mile to the west of the hamlet of Salta, three-quarters of a mile south-west of the hamlet of Hailforth, and one-and-a-half miles north of the village of Allonby. Carlisle, Cumbria's county town, lies approximately twenty-eight miles to the north-east. The B5300, known locally as the coast road, runs through Dubmill. Dubmill lends its name to both Dubmill Point and Dubmill Scar. Dubmill Point is the name for the headland at the"
"silting of the Diglis Basin caused the abandonment of Sidbury. Industrial production ceased and the settlement contracted to a defended position along the lines of the old British fort at the river terrace's southern end. This settlement is generally identified with the listed among the 28 cities of Britain in the ""History of the Britons"" attributed to Nennius. This is probably not a British name but an adaption of its Old English name , ""fort of the Weorgoran"". Worcester appears to have ceased to be an urban centre at the end of the Roman period. Instead, there appears to have"
"""Durovernum Cantiacorum"" (""Kentish Durovernum"") occupied the location of an earlier British town whose ancient British name has been reconstructed as *""Durou̯ernon"" (""stronghold by the alder grove""), although the name is sometimes supposed to have derived from various British names for the Stour. (Medieval variants of the Roman name include ""Dorobernia"" and ""Dorovernia"".) In Sub-Roman Britain, it was known in Old Welsh as ""Cair Ceint"" (""stronghold of Kent""). Occupied by the Jutes, it became known in Old English as ""Cantwareburh"" (""stronghold of the Kentish men""), which developed into the present name. The Canterbury area has been inhabited since prehistoric times. Lower"
"Charterhouse Roman Town Charterhouse Roman Town was a town in the Roman province of Britannia. Its site is located just to the west of the village of Charterhouse-on-Mendip in the English county of Somerset. Its Latin name may have been Iscalis, but this is far from certain. Based on inscriptions on a pig of Roman lead BRIT. EX. ARG. VEB, meaning ""British (lead) from the VEB... lead-silver works"", the Roman name has been reconstructed as Vebriacum (with Iscalis more plausibly placed at Cheddar). It is associated with the Iron Age hill fort, Charterhouse Camp. The Roman landscape has been designated"
"Luguvalium Luguvalium was a Roman town in northern Britain in antiquity. It was located within present-day Carlisle, Cumbria, and may have been the capital of the 4th-century province of Valentia. The Romans called the settlement at what is today Carlisle . This was originally thought to mean ""wall[ed town] of Lugus"" but has since been explained as a borrowed Brittonic placename reconstructed as *Luguwalion, meaning ""[city] of Luguwalos"", Luguwalos being a masculine Celtic given name meaning ""strength of Lugus"". The name apparently continued in use among Brythonic speakers in the Hen Ogledd and Wales and it was during that time"
"Dumfries Dumfries ( ; possibly from ) is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland, United Kingdom. It is located near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth. Dumfries is the traditional county town of the historic county of Dumfriesshire. Dumfries is nicknamed ""Queen of the South"". The nickname has also given name to the town's professional football club. People from Dumfries are known colloquially as ""Doonhamers"". There are at least three theories on the etymology of the name. One is that the name Dumfries originates from the"
"Durocornovium Durocornovium was a Roman town in Britain, situated on the Roman road between Corinium Dobunnorum (Cirencester) and Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester). In many ways Durocornovium was a typical small Roman town. The town, encompassing around 25 hectares at its peak, was located at Nythe Farm, east of the A419 adjacent to modern Swindon, although the site is usually associated with the village of Wanborough to the southeast. The farmland is a designated flood plain and has a history of inundation, alleviated by modern drainage, based on clay and gravel beds. There is no public access and no remains are visible."
"Duroliponte Duroliponte or Durolipons was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is known as Cambridge, located in the English county of Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. The site of Roman Cambridge is located on Castle Hill, just northwest of the city centre. The fort () was bounded on two sides by the lines formed by the present Mount Pleasant, continuing across Huntingdon Road into Clare Street. The eastern side followed Magrath Avenue, with the southern side running near to Chesterton Lane and Kettle's Yard before turning northwest at Honey Hill. It was originally an Iron"
"Magnae Dobunnorum Magnae, sometimes Magnae Dobunnorum (Latin for ""The Greats of the Dobunni"") to distinguish it from the Magnae of the Carvetii in northern Britain, was a Romano-British town and an important market centre for the British Dobunni tribe, located near modern-day Kenchester in Herefordshire, England. The town was shaped as an irregular hexagon, with a single main street along the line of the main Roman Road running east–west through the area, and an irregular pattern of side streets with tightly packed buildings leading off it. The Roman town is securely identified with the ""Magnis"" which appears both in the"
"Durocornovium created a unique style of painted wares which never became fashionable nor widespread. Durocornovium Durocornovium was a Roman town in Britain, situated on the Roman road between Corinium Dobunnorum (Cirencester) and Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester). In many ways Durocornovium was a typical small Roman town. The town, encompassing around 25 hectares at its peak, was located at Nythe Farm, east of the A419 adjacent to modern Swindon, although the site is usually associated with the village of Wanborough to the southeast. The farmland is a designated flood plain and has a history of inundation, alleviated by modern drainage, based on"
"Roman invasion in 43 AD, the Dumnonii - possibly meaning 'Deep Valley Dwellers' (Cornish: ""Dewnans"", Welsh: ""Dyfnaint"", Breton: ""Devnent"") or 'Worshippers of the god Dumnonos'. This tribal name carried on into the Roman and post-Roman periods. The Dumnonii did not mint coins, unlike their neighbours to the east the Durotriges, but coins of the Dobunni have been found in the area. Early trading ports are known to have existed at Mount Batten (Plymouth) and at Bantham where ancient tin ingots were found in 1991-92 according with classical reports of tin trading with the Mediterranean Aillen Fox, 1996. Devon was not"
"viewed and a medieval skeleton found in the nearby St Martin-le-Grand church, nicknamed ""Fred"" by the volunteers who keep the museum running. Dubris's mansio was demolished in 270 for the construction of a Saxon Shore Fort. This demolition preserved the mansio and its wall-paintings better than usual, since the foots of the walls were contained in the fort's rampart. A small amount of the fort remains is now visible, on request, at Dover Library and Discovery Centre (the former White Cliffs Experience), and a public house off Market Square is built on and named after the Roman Quay. The most"
"The alternative explanation notes that ""Durobrivae"" was also recorded as ""Durobrovum"" and ""Durobrivis"". Either of these could be a Latinisation of the British word ""Dourbruf"" meaning ""swift stream"". The name is recorded as ""Durobrivis"" in around 730 and ""Dorobrevis"" in 844. The first of these was pronounced as ""Robrivis"". Bede copied down the name, c730, mistaking its meaning as ""Hrofi's fortified camp"" (OE ""Hrofes cæster""). From this comes c730 ""Hrofæscæstre"", 811 ""Hrofescester"", 1086 ""Rovescester', 1610 ""Rochester"". From Bede's time the name contained the Latin word ""castra"", which is present in the names of many cities that were once Roman camps"
"takes its first two syllables from the Roman name, with the addition of the Old English word ""ceaster"" 'Roman fortification'. This was shortened over time to Chester, the name used locally for the town (Latinised as ""Cestria""). But ""Chester"" is a common name for towns in England, and in the Middle Ages ""Street"", for the Roman road, was added. The Universal etymological English dictionary of 1749 gives the town as ""Chester upon Street"" (and describes it as ""a Village in the Bishoprick of Durham""). At some point this was shortened to the modern form. The town has a mild climate"
"other discoveries at the city's Royal Albert Memorial Museum. Isca Dumnoniorum Isca Dumnoniorum, also known simply as Isca, was a town in the Roman province of Britannia at the site of present-day Exeter in the English county of Devon in the United Kingdom. It served as the tribal capital of the Dumnonians under and after the Romans. The city walls of Exeter (some 70% of which survive) mark the former perimeter of Isca and excavations in the 1970s and 1980s verified that the town was home to a Roman fortress almost certainly for the Second Augustan Legion. The town seems"
"Roman departure from Britain around 410, but it has been identified as the listed among the 28 cities of Britain by the ""History of the Britons"" and the invading Saxons had begun occupying the area by the end of the century. The settlement was served by the River Cam (then still known as the Granta) and two Roman roads: Akeman Street ran from Ermine Street north east through Cambridge to The Fens and the Via Devana ran northwest through the town on its way to Godmanchester. Duroliponte Duroliponte or Durolipons was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia."
"military occupation at Cadbury Castle in Somerset, Hembury in Devon, and Hodd Hill in Dorset. Maiden Castle had been abandoned by the end of the 1st century, a time when ""Durnovaria"" (Dorchester) rose to prominence as the ""civitas"", or regional capital, of the Durotriges, a Celtic tribe whose territory was in southwest England. However, in July 2015 archaeologists from Bournemouth University discovered the remains of the Iron Age settlement of Duropolis and believe that the abandonment of the fort may be connected with the new site. According to the ancient geographer Ptolemy, writing in the 2nd century AD, ""Dunium"" was"
"of the Tour of Britain came through Dubmill. A small crowd gathered to cheer on the riders, and bunting was hung along the roadside fences. Dubmill Dubmill is a settlement in the civil parish of Holme St. Cuthbert in Cumbria, United Kingdom. It is located approximately one mile south-west of the village of Mawbray, half-a-mile to the west of the hamlet of Salta, three-quarters of a mile south-west of the hamlet of Hailforth, and one-and-a-half miles north of the village of Allonby. Carlisle, Cumbria's county town, lies approximately twenty-eight miles to the north-east. The B5300, known locally as the coast"
"Duropolis Duropolis is the name of an archaeological site at Winterborne Kingston in the English county of Dorset, believed to be the remains of the first planned town in Britain. The site's first discoveries were made in 2008 led by co-directors Miles Russell and Paul Cheetham. The Iron Age settlement is believed to date to around 100 BCE, making it 70 years older than the Roman town of Silchester. The site has been named by archaeologists after the Iron Age Durotriges tribe. Its settlement may have been associated with the abandonment of nearby Maiden Castle in the 1st century BCE."
"the Dumnonii""), contains the root ""*iska-"" ""water"" for ""Water of the Dumnonii"". The Latin name suggests that the city was already an ""oppidum"", or walled town, on the banks on the River Exe before the foundation of the Roman city, in about AD 50. The Dumnonii gave their name to the English county of Devon, and their name is represented in Britain's two extant Brythonic languages as ""Dewnans"" in Cornish and ""Dyfnaint"" in Welsh. Amédée Thierry (""Histoire des Gaulois"", 1828), one of the inventors of the ""historic race"" of Gauls, could confidently equate them with the Cornish (""les Cornouailles""). Victorian"